UGST4077 - Cultures of Quantification (Winter 2023)
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
Marquis de Condorcet, "A general view of the science of social mathematics," Condorcet: Selected Writings (1976 [1793]), 183-206.
Further resources:
Keith Michael Baker, Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics (1975).
Emma Rothschild, Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment (2001).